Toy smoking device



1. 0. WILSON.

TOY SMOKING DEVICE.

APPLICATiON FILED saw. a. 1920.

1,411,146. Patented Mar. 28, 1922.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TOY SMOKING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 28, 1922.

Application filed September 8, 1920. Serial No, 408,841.

To all whom it may concern;

a new and Improved Toy Smoking Device,

of which the following is a description.

My invention relates to adevice whereby the act of smoking may be simulated, the general object of the invention being to provide a device of the indicated character embodying a container to receive powdered material and means whereby the powdered material may be ejected in the form of puii's in simulation of puffs of smoke.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, it being understood that the drawings are merely illustrative of one example of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an imitation smoking device embodying my invention showing the same in use;

Figure 2 is an enlarged top view thereof;

Figure 3 is a longitudinal vertical section as indicated by the line 33, Figure 2;

.Figure 4 is a transverse vertical section as indicated by the line 44, Figure 3.

In the illustrated example of my imitation smoking device it is given the general shape of a cigar and includes an elongated outer shell 10 constituting a container adapted to hold powdered material. Said container has a suitable closure at the front end to facilitate the charging of the .container with the powdered material. In the form shown the closure is in the form of a cap fitted onto the front open endof the container. Near the front end said container 10 has a lateral orifice 12 adapted to be positioned at the top when the device is in use and the cap 13, which is adapted to be brought into or out of register with the orifice 12 by a turning movement of said cap 11. In addition to its turning movement the cap 11 is slidably removable for charging the con tainer with the powdered material.

Disposed longitudinally in the container 11 has a similar orifice 10 is a blow-tube 14 which extends from the rear or mouth end of the container forwardly to a point adjacent to the orifice 12'. In connection with the front end of the tube 14 I provide a valve, preferably a flap valve 15 which is adapted to close said tube when air is drawn rearwardly into the latter-and to open when air is blown forwardly through the tube.

In use a powdered white material having been placed in the container 10 and the cap 11 placed in position on the container and turned to brings the orifices 12 and 13 into register it will readily be understood that puffs of air blown through the tube 14 will cause the powder to be ejected in the form of puffs in simulation of smoke puffs. On the other hand the inadvertent sucking of airrearwardly through the tube will cause the valve 15 to instantly close and prevent the owder from being drawn into the mouth o the user.

I would state in conclusion that while the illustrated example constitutes a practical embodiment of my invention, I do not limitmyself strictly to the mechanical details herein illustrated, since manifestly the same I can be considerably varied without departure from the spirit of the invention as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim An imitation smoking device including a container adapted to hold powdered Y material, an element turnable on the con tainer at the front end, said element and container having orifices -adapted to be brought into or out ofcregister by the turning of the said element, and a blow-tube ranging longitudinally in the container for reyecting the contents of the container in the form of puffs through said orifices; together with a flap valve on thetnbe at the frontend adapted to open upon air. being blown through the tube and to automatically close in response to suction-produced in said tube.

JOHN 0. WILSON. 

